GOT MILK ?

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In my ongoing madness for action on the line, I have just about completed this;
[size=12pt]http://youtu.be/XTVSwxibUMw [/size]

[size=12pt]I still have some tweeking to do however. Sorry about the poor film quality. Too many things in the background. [/size]
 
Ingenious:thumbup:
 
On your vid you say that you would prefer a sliding door but have not yet got your head round it. Would a servo work if you had a long lever with a pivot offset so that the servo push was small but the action was long. A door with the long pivot and in a top slide with the pivot above coud work. You ought to get about 80% of the Van width in travel. If this does not make sence to you I will do a small drawing and lift it up later.
JonD
 
Clever stuff:thumbup::thumbup:
 
dunnyrail said:
On your vid you say that you would prefer a sliding door but have not yet got your head round it. Would a servo work if you had a long lever with a pivot offset so that the servo push was small but the action was long. A door with the long pivot and in a top slide with the pivot above coud work. You ought to get about 80% of the Van width in travel. If this does not make sence to you I will do a small drawing and lift it up later.
JonD
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A servo sounds like a good idea. I did some reworking of the mechanism that moves the loading platform. Now it travels farther, so I can position the platform at a greater distance from the rail head. So now when Wallace has pushed all three cans out onto the platform, the platform moves back away from the car enough so that when the door swings shut it doesn't catch on the milk cans.
As I mentioned there's still some work to do to get the operation dummy proof. The dummy being yours truly. I also have to paint the car and bomb proof the loading or unloading platform. I do plan on putting this to use in my garden railway. So all of the above is necessary.
 
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